Example sentences of "[vb past] the first world war " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , for example , Leon Trotsky described the First World War as ‘ at bottom , a revolt of the forces of production against the political forms of the nation and the State ’ . |
| 2 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 3 | During the Second World War , the United States operated a ‘ bare-shelves ’ policy towards grain stocks , fearing a repeat of the price crash which followed the First World War . |
| 4 | However car 4 spent the First World War ferrying bread to the military camp at Squires Gate , for which it was fitted with a pair of side doors . |
| 5 | The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force . |
| 6 | Only a handful of shows survived the First World War , during which many of the old varieties of berries became extinct . |
| 7 | Not only did the First World War produce a major crisis of authority for the old order , but it also resulted in the harnessing by the State , on an unprecedented scale , of the power and resources of the nation towards the war effort . |
| 8 | The Napoleonic Wars brought about a large increase in the government debt and , in the twentieth century , so did the First World War and the Second World War . |
| 9 | Desert Storm , with its thousands of sorties a day , could have been planned without computers ( the Schlieffen plan launched the first world war with sweat and brainpower , little more ) ; but computers allow the plans to be fine-tuned and to be altered quickly . |